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Validation, vending and Vala

Today is a good day for an exciting release. Raise your paws… or hands for celebration, Midori 0.2.5 is out of the door.

Notably visible validation of SSL certificates, which is reflected in yellow or red background in the location. There is more to come, but it is a good step ahead. See [http://www.twotoasts.de/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=168 bug 168] for further details.

For Kiosk usage, support has been enhanced. The new command line switches –inactivity-reset and –blocked-uris can be used to reset the session after a period of inactivity and also to restrict the accessible websites to prevent misuse of the Kiosk interface. Feedback in [http://www.twotoasts.de/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=605 bug 605] is very welcome.

I am happy to say that the Windows support has caught up with the latest changes and Midori builds perfectly for Windows again. Thanks to Peter who worked hard to resolve a number of portability issues and continually provided binaries, all we reached feature parity and all extensions run smoothly. And we even have a proper installer.

A fancy new feature, targetted at those who want to extend Midori, is Vala support for extensions. There are currently no vital parts implemented in Vala except one example extension, and some bits are likely missing, but you can already implement seriously good enhancements in Vala. So anyone interested is welcome to give it a try.

Mouse Gestures now support the right mouse button and this is the default binding. Many users requested this and should hopefully enjoy gesturing a lot in the future.

People who like to surf the web fullscreen may find themselves losing track of time. A solution for this is the new Status Clock extension, which renders a clock in the statusbar.

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24 thoughts on “Validation, vending and Vala”

Hi, I use Midori for everything except WebCT Vista, which seems to have more javascript than Webkit cares for. Anyway, Midori rocks.

My one problem is that Midori is the only program on my Arch system which did not automatically start using my bitmapped Chinese font, Wenquanyi. If I load a page with Chinese it freezes for a few minutes then seems to render the page using ‘fixed-misc’ which are such horrible fonts, seeing them makes me want to self-harm.

Concerning the mouse gestures: It is a bit pity, that midori and thunar use different mouse buttons to initate the gestures.
Maybe there should be a coordination to keep the consistence of the XFCE Desktop.

Thanks for the relase. An awesome Browser! I’m looking forward to the 1.0 release, because at this state of development Midori is crashing sometimes.
Does anybody know how to get apturl working on Midori?

Bugs in Midori Win32 0.2.5:
Import bookmarks no work in files HTM, HTML
Import bookmarks of Arora’s works but do not allows to modify them
This [url=www.moetron.com]page[/url] load bad (this load fine running Midori 0.2.4 in Xubuntu)

PS:
[url=http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/archives/30-Validation,-vending-and-Vala.html#c1446]The URL of the comment works well in WinXP[/url]

I can’t reproduce your problems, I’m reading Ars Technica regularly without issues. Did you upgrade other packages at the same time, such as GLib, libSoup or WebKitGTK+? Using either WebKitGTK+ 1.1.15 or 1.2.0 would be a good idea in any case since those are the stable releases and can make a big difference.

It isn’t stable anymore it SEGPHAULTS far too often, on random pages without any good reason – it goes boooooom/dead -WTF??

What’s more, i got lots of add sites blocked with /etc/hosts.
Site starts loading and BOOM i get a full screen message that it is impossible to connet to add site – WTF?? It’s impossible to access site – http://techrights.org/?stories